The strange made intimate with Susan Doherty
Course Overview
This Workshop is for playing and allowing your inner child to resurface, making a garden together and throwing light on the steps to this building with discussions and sharing thoughts and the what and how things influence you.
It will be a little bounce into exploring the makeup and the concepts of assemblage art with discussions around my exhibition in The Gold Series and the Poetry of Flowers. We shall be exploring the re-contextualizing objects through our artist imagination and combining them using invocative techniques. De-constructing and reconstructing everyday objects into a new meaning, and re-interpreting their significance.
Our garden of flowers made together will make the familiar strange.
Workshop
During the two-day workshop we will be learn about:
- Finding objects that speak to you and why
- Making and discussing the making
- What our responsibility as artists are and the important building blocks used in our making; and (e.g. ethics?/stability?/ longevity?)
- how re-interpretation of found objects makes work perfectly imperfect.
Materials List
Student materials list:
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tools |
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needles and threads |
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hot glue gun |
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Glue |
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scissors |
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hammer |
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Drill Candle lighter |
materials (Remember -Assemblage Art is the bones of Art Provera – bring object to swop, cut, burn, glue, bash) bring whatever speaks to you.
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poem / sayings you love |
boards |
frames |
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broken objects |
jewellery |
any fabrics / threads |
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paints/inks |
wires (hard/soft/copper) |
frames |
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broken objects |
hoses/pvc piping |
beach detritus |
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rope/string/twine/raffia |
feathers/fur |
ribbons/lace |
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zips/buttons |
bones/teeth/hair |
fluff/dirt |
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ochers/pigments rocks |
nails/pins a few containers |
Toys corks |
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tape |
bush treasures |
seeds/nuts |
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flowers/plants (or pictures of) |
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Workshop Terms
While our fibre art workshops are usually held in the gallery's historically significant workshop space, the workshop venue may change according to the needs and wishes of the artist tutor. Likewise, the times of the workshops may vary depending on the type of workshop and its presentation.
Timeless Textiles Gallery will, at its own discretion, where a participant is unable to attend a fibre art workshop, an exchange or credit note will be made available or a refund of the deposit or payment in accordance with the following Workshop Refund Policy.
Major commitments must be met, and in fairness to all, the policy concerning the refund is:
Cancellations 3 months prior to workshop date - refund 80% fees paid
Cancellations 2 months prior to workshop date- refund 50% fees paid.
Cancellations 1 month prior to workshop date- no refund.
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